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On 7 May 2006, Zidane, who had announced his plans to retire after the 2006 World Cup, [51] played his farewell match and scored in a 3–3 draw with Villarreal. The squad wore commemorative shirts with ZIDANE 2001–2006 below the club logo.
In April 2006, France's Zinedine Zidane, who also played for Spanish league side Real Madrid, announced his retirement from football, saying his playing career would end after the World Cup. [20] In May 2006, a match-fixing scandal in Italy's Serie A league was uncovered, mainly surrounding Juventus , [ 21 ] a team to which five of the national ...
The 2006 FIFA World Cup was the 18th FIFA World Cup, ... Zinedine Zidane opened the scoring by converting a controversial seventh-minute penalty kick, [46] ...
The former player was given the captaincy first, but handed it over to Zidane when he returned to the team in 2005. [23] [24] Zidane subsequently wore the armband at the 2006 FIFA World Cup and became the first French captain and just the fourth player in association football history to be sent off in a World Cup final match.
Zinedine Zidane converted a controversial penalty and was sent off for a headbutt in the 2006 FIFA World Cup Final Zinedine Zidane opened the scoring in the 7th minute by converting a controversial penalty spot kick, which glanced off the underside of the crossbar and into the goal.
The 2006 FIFA World Player of the Year prize was awarded to the Italian Fabio Cannavaro for the first time. [1] He finished ahead of retired midfielder Zinédine Zidane, who won the Golden Ball at the World Cup and the winner of the 2005 FIFA World Player of the Year Ronaldinho in the final round of voting.
The sculpture depicts an incident that took place in the 110th minute of the 2006 FIFA World Cup Final between France and Italy, [2] when Zinedine Zidane headbutted Italian defender Marco Materazzi in the chest after Materazzi had verbally provoked him. [3] Zidane consequently received a red card and was sent off. France lost the match, which ...
Players with multiple goals in FIFA World Cup Finals Player Team Goals scored Finals played Final(s) Kylian Mbappé France: 4 2 2018, 2022 3: Geoff Hurst England: 3 1 1966 3: Vavá Brazil: 3 2 1958 2, 1962: Pelé Brazil: 3 2 1958 2, 1970: Zinedine Zidane France: 3 2 1998 2, 2006 Gino Colaussi Italy: 2 1 1938 2: Silvio Piola Italy: 2 1 1938 2 ...